High count of failed logons by a user
Description
'Identifies when 100 or more failed attempts by a given user in 10 minutes occur on the IIS Server. This could be indicative of attempted brute force based on known account information. This could also simply indicate a misconfigured service or device. References: IIS status code mapping - https://support.microsoft.com/help/943891/the-http-status-code-in-iis-7-0-iis-7-5-and-iis-8-0 Win32 Status code mapping - https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/cc231199.aspx'
Query · kql
let timeBin = 10m;
let failedThreshold = 100;
W3CIISLog
| where scStatus in ("401","403")
| where csUserName != "-"
// Handling Exchange specific items in IIS logs to remove the unique log identifier in the URI
| extend csUriQuery = iff(csUriQuery startswith "MailboxId=", tostring(split(csUriQuery, "&")[0]) , csUriQuery )
| extend csUriQuery = iff(csUriQuery startswith "X-ARR-CACHE-HIT=", strcat(tostring(split(csUriQuery, "&")[0]),tostring(split(csUriQuery, "&")[1])) , csUriQuery )
| extend scStatusFull = strcat(scStatus, ".",scSubStatus)
// Map common IIS codes
| extend scStatusFull_Friendly = case(
scStatusFull == "401.0", "Access denied.",
scStatusFull == "401.1", "Logon failed.",
scStatusFull == "401.2", "Logon failed due to server configuration.",
scStatusFull == "401.3", "Unauthorized due to ACL on resource.",
scStatusFull == "401.4", "Authorization failed by filter.",
scStatusFull == "401.5", "Authorization failed by ISAPI/CGI application.",
scStatusFull == "403.0", "Forbidden.",
scStatusFull == "403.4", "SSL required.",
"See - https://support.microsoft.com/help/943891/the-http-status-code-in-iis-7-0-iis-7-5-and-iis-8-0")
// Mapping to Hex so can be mapped using website in comments above
| extend scWin32Status_Hex = tohex(tolong(scWin32Status))
// Map common win32 codes
| extend scWin32Status_Friendly = case(
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "775", "The referenced account is currently locked out and cannot be logged on to.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "52e", "Logon failure: Unknown user name or bad password.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "532", "Logon failure: The specified account password has expired.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "533", "Logon failure: Account currently disabled.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "2ee2", "The request has timed out.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "0", "The operation completed successfully.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "1", "Incorrect function.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "2", "The system cannot find the file specified.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "3", "The system cannot find the path specified.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "4", "The system cannot open the file.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "5", "Access is denied.",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "8009030e", "SEC_E_NO_CREDENTIALS",
scWin32Status_Hex =~ "8009030C", "SEC_E_LOGON_DENIED",
"See - https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/cc231199.aspx")
// decode URI when available
| extend decodedUriQuery = url_decode(csUriQuery)
// Count of failed logons by a user
| summarize makeset(decodedUriQuery), makeset(cIP), makeset(sSiteName), makeset(sPort), makeset(csUserAgent), makeset(csMethod), makeset(csUriQuery), makeset(scStatusFull), makeset(scStatusFull_Friendly), makeset(scWin32Status_Hex), makeset(scWin32Status_Friendly), FailedConnectionsCount = count() by bin(TimeGenerated, timeBin), csUserName, Computer, sIP
| where FailedConnectionsCount >= failedThreshold
| project TimeGenerated, csUserName, set_decodedUriQuery, Computer, set_sSiteName, sIP, set_cIP, set_sPort, set_csUserAgent, set_csMethod, set_scStatusFull, set_scStatusFull_Friendly, set_scWin32Status_Hex, set_scWin32Status_Friendly, FailedConnectionsCount
| order by FailedConnectionsCount
| extend HostName = tostring(split(Computer, ".")[0]), DomainIndex = toint(indexof(Computer, '.'))
| extend HostNameDomain = iff(DomainIndex != -1, substring(Computer, DomainIndex + 1), Computer)
| extend AccountName = tostring(split(csUserName, "@")[0]), AccountUPNSuffix = tostring(split(csUserName, "@")[1])